This poem has great essence of Bakthi culture to it. Unlike northern culture where relegion was based on rituals, the bakthi culutre had essence of loving god without any barriers. Here Arunagiri prays directly to the god and asks him to grant him knowledge. The communication is directly between him and the god.He here wishes that he gets the knowledge directly from the god rather than begging people who are learned and do not share with any one. Also shows difference between man and god. When god posses something he will share it with all when requested but man wishes to hide it so that only he can enjoy it.

And now to my favourite topic, the history of various myths involved here. Here if you see Arunagiri praises Murugan as raider of Elephant and posseser of the Thunderbolt. This must confuse most of the people , Indra is god who has used thunderbolt as his weapon and also had elephant Airavatham as his . So in the mythology we know, Murugan has peacock/cock and Vel(Lance). The myth of Murugan having elephant is from Sangam literature and the myth of Skanda having Thunder bolt is from sanskrit literature(from Mahabaratha version- where Indra gifts his weapon to Kumara , who uses it to destroy the evil in the form of mountain).